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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ldc-1.1.0-beta4
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Danny Milosavljevic
<dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
>> Hmm, my understanding of how the package definitions work might be
>> incomplete: It seemed to me like after you inherited, from a package,
>> and then added a definition in any of the variables, the new variables
>> would NOT add to the values of the older ones but rather, they would
>> completely overwrite the older one.
>
> Yes. I mean you can leave the whole "(arguments ...)" form off.

I tried that, but since dmd2/root/port.c file no longer exists, the
'patch-dmd2 step causes the build to fail. That's the reason I decided
to just add the same things again, but without the 'patch-dmd2 step

-- 
Frederick M. Muriithi